Wednesday        2nd   January,  2019

```DESTINY DISCOVERY AND MOLDING MESSAGE (DDMM)```
♦ *TOPIC: CONSISTENCY part 1*
*_By: Judah Olatunde_*
Proverbs  13:4  The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
  Proverbs  22:29  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Consistency is a department of faith and it a potent means of confirming diligence. In order words, you can never claim to be diligent or hard work if you're not consistent.

Anything at all you consistently do literally becomes an habit most especially when your heart goes deeply into it. Chain smokers or or people addicted drugs didn't just start that over night, it took time. They had to first taste it and then continually take it until they become inseparable from it.

The same thing applies to the things of God, for instance, nobody under heaven will ever need to beg me to build my relationship with Jesus or beg me to tell others about Jesus and this is not because I am not aware that so many people today are faking their relationship with Jesus. And I can boldly tell you that "those who fall away due to trials of life were not consistent enough before the trials came".

Haven't you notice chain smokers? Even when they want to stop smoking, they find it so difficult to do, irrespective of the weather condition, whether cold or hot, even when the smoke is chopping off their lungs and damaging their kidney, they remain highly interested and committed to smoking and drinking.

I haven't found a believer who is truly consistent and yet falls away. The reason why people fall easily is because they were not truly committed and consistent until the day they were tempted to give up or fall away.

I love to counsel using this particular statement "whatever you don't want to continue doing in life or with somebody, don't start it". For instance, you like to hug people both man and woman when you see them as a means of greeting them but after you do that for awhile and a day comes when you were not really in the mood or when you just wanted to shake hands, the person may think something is wrong or he/she may say something like "maybe I have hurt him/her in one way or the other" these assumptions may not necessarily be true but because you have been used to greet everybody in that way, anytime you don't do it, you may suddenly become an enemy. There are also many other cases but anything at all that you can't continue with, maybe dress style, Lifestyle, etc its better you don't start it and the tragedy is that multitude in this generation don't know there are prices to pay for their glorious destiny to be actualized.

For example, If you know your vision as a woman is to end as a pastors wife, you can't afford to dress anyhow now because you are a major example people are looking at and it is so unfortunate that many look at great people and aspire to be like them without knowing the price those people paid to arrive where they are.

*Insights For Today: You're still foolish if you think things just happen because God said them. If you refuse to take responsibility for your destiny and pay the required prices and sacrifice needed or demanded, you may never see the fulfillmemt of such destiny.*

*_Prayer Point: Father, help me to be consistent in doing what is required this year in Jesus name. Keep walking by faith_*

MEDITATION FOR TODAY: A life without consistency in doing what is required will only end in abrupt destruction.
DAILY BIBLE READING PLAN: Psalm 76; Habakkuk 3 and Acts 13